The register of repeats

Two hundred songs in, the same shadows and the same dust come back until a listener hears one voice saying one thing. The register is where you write down what is spent, so every text you write is checked against it while you write it.

Register in the menu (or G R) opens it.

A term

Each entry is a term:

• The word — as you read it: окно, on the edge, a lighthouse nobody keeps.
• Forms — other words that count as the same term: окон beside окно, горячий beside тёплый. Cases need no form: words are compared by their stems, so окно already finds окна, окне and окном, and ladder finds ladders.
• Kind — a noun, an adjective, a verb or a phrase is wording; an image, a scene or a pattern is a meaning. The difference matters, below.
• Strictness — banned (spent: one more use says nothing new), limited (each use has to earn its place), or rare (a word used so seldom that even two or three uses stand out). It decides how the term is marked in a text.
• Topic — your own grouping: the kitchen, physics and space.
• Note — why it is spent, or what to reach for instead.

How many works

Beside every term the register says how many works carry it now. The number is not stored anywhere: it is read off the works each time you look.

• Wording is found in each work’s current version — the text the work is today, not its old drafts. Rewrite a verse without the word and the work leaves the count; add a form to the term and the works that say it join. Whole words only: чай is not in чайка. What stands in square brackets — [Chorus] — is a section’s name and never counts.
• A meaning cannot be found by its words — a lighthouse nobody keeps is told a hundred ways — so kilna never looks for it. You name the works that carry it: open the term and Name a work. A work can be named for wording too, when a text says it in a form the term does not list.

Open a term to see the works: how many times each one says it, and which ones you named. × lets a named work go.

In every text

Under a version’s toolbar a strip lists the terms of the register this text takes — тень ×3 — banned first, and each term is marked where it stands: a banned term with a wavy line, a limited one underlined, a rare one dotted. The number after a term is how many works carry it across the workspace. Click a term to open it in the register.

The strip is there whether you are reading or writing. While you write, the repeated words are tinted as well, and both marks can sit on one word.

Adding a term

• From a text: select a word or a line in a version and press To the register in its toolbar. The word is filled in, the kind is guessed — one word a noun, several a phrase — and the form says how many works already say it before you save.
• By hand: + Term on the register.

A word is kept once, whatever its case: a second Окно is refused and the first one named.

Meaning, and the assistant

The register catches words, not meanings — which is exactly why it keeps images and scenes. The Studio profile’s Neighbours in meaning action reads a lyric beside the register and beside the few works whose words stand closest to it (shared words weighed by how rare each one is), and answers with the lines that say a spent image in other words and the works this one says the same thing as. Its answer is kept as a Neighbours version beside the text, like a critique.

Any action can read the register: {register} in a template is the whole register grouped by strictness, meanings last, with what the text already takes; {neighbours} is the nearest works with their texts. See the profile document.

Deleting

Delete sends a term to the trash with the works you named for it, and Undo brings it back. A work you throw away takes its named terms with it, and brings them back when it is restored.